US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 24 for "Beamforming techniques using random-based parameter selection at reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,782, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beamforming techniques using random-based parameter selection at reconfigurable intelligent surfaces" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a transmitting device may transmit a set of reference signals to a receiver via a configurable surface such as a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS may randomly adjust one or more parameters for one or multiple RIS elements to provide different beamformed parameters for reflec...